When I first saw that Ford was opening up its Heritage Vault, a collection of images from the company's past, I thought that it wouldn't be exciting for CleanTechnica readers. After all, we're into EVs
When I first saw that Ford was opening up its Heritage Vault, a collection of images from the company’s past, I thought that it wouldn’t be exciting forreaders. After all, we’re into EVs around here, and maybe plug-in hybrids. Ford’s heritage? Well, it’s almost all gas and diesel, right? But, then I thought about it a little more and it dawned on me that my initial assumption isn’t really true.
This is nothing amazing by today’s standards, but keep in mind this was 1998 and 1999, and it’s competitive with the 2011 Nissan LEAF, but in a vehicle that’s highly useful for a variety of work and play.While a decade is hardly long enough to elicit nostalgia, it’s a good way for us to see just how much the industry has changed. The 2013 Focus Electric was Ford’s first current-era EV, and it wasn’t great by most measures.
But, the vehicle was many people’s first EV, both for people who bought them new and for people who picked them up used. The price was lower than a Tesla of the time, and was even cheaper once they hit the used market. So, like other compliance cars, it ended up democratizing EVs earlier than today’s dedicated EVs would have.
This is something I didn’t know about until I started poking around in Ford’s vault. Before the California ZEV program, Ford had long been experimenting with electric propulsion. But, earlier in the 90s, the company experimented with a small electric delivery and work vehicle. These vehicles were only tested in Europe, which is probably why I never heard of them.It was successful in that Ford didn’t intend to make a production EV, but accomplished its other goals.
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